Ecclesiastes 10:18

Modern King James Version

By slothfulness the building decays; and through lowering of the hands the house leaks.

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The hand of the hard worker shall bear rule, but the lazy shall be under service.

A wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.

The lazy one will not plow; after the autumn he shall beg in harvest and have nothing.

The desire of the lazy man kills him, for his hands have refused to work.

for the drunkard and the glutton lose all, and sleepiness shall clothe a man with rags.

And we desire that each one of you show the same eagerness to the full assurance of hope to the end,